Diaz, master of Mexico . c law,which in the end unsheathed a sword that transformedanarchy into order. One of his Latin pupils was the son of Marcos Perez,a tall, lank Indian lawyer, with piercing eyes and hollowcheeks, who was a professor of law at the state Instituteof Arts and Sciences. This institution was a hotbed ofLiberalism. It had developed implacable anticlericals likeBenito Juarez, the great Indian lawyer and patriot, whohad been one of its directors, and was now governor ofthe state of Oaxaca. Santa Anna, the dictator, hatedthis breeder of lawyers, whom, as a class, he had learnedt
Diaz, master of Mexico . c law,which in the end unsheathed a sword that transformedanarchy into order. One of his Latin pupils was the son of Marcos Perez,a tall, lank Indian lawyer, with piercing eyes and hollowcheeks, who was a professor of law at the state Instituteof Arts and Sciences. This institution was a hotbed ofLiberalism. It had developed implacable anticlericals likeBenito Juarez, the great Indian lawyer and patriot, whohad been one of its directors, and was now governor ofthe state of Oaxaca. Santa Anna, the dictator, hatedthis breeder of lawyers, whom, as a class, he had learnedto fear, and did everything possible to harass anddestroy it. One evening Marcos Perez invited Porfirio to go tothe Institute to see the prizes distributed by GovernorJuarez. This was at the very time when the boys god-father, the priest Dominguez, had set before him theponderous leather volume of St. Thomas Aquinass Summa Theologise, which, as a preparation for thepriesthood, was to teach him that revelation is a more 46. Benito Juarez. FROM PRIESTHOOD TO LAW trustworthy source of knowledge than observation andreason. Porfirio put on his Sunday clothes and went to thehouse of Perez to accompany him to the Institute. Therehe found the tall professor talking to Juarez, the elo-quent and unterrified leader whose name was accursedeverywhere among the Clericals and whose influencewas detested by Santa Anna and his kind—a short,thickset Indian, with dark skin, great dignity, and anunreadable face. When Perez introduced his young friend to the fa-mous governor, saying that he hoped the boy would bea law student in the Institute in the following year—asignificant remark considering the fact that Porfirio wasstudying for a clerical career—Juarez reached out andshook the little fellows hand with great heartiness. Thismade a deep impression upon the young student, for atthe seminary no boy was allowed to speak to a professorwithout holding his arms across his body and bowingvery hum
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